Lv Prasad Eye Hospital Celebrates Its Silver Jubilee Year

: Admin : 2020-09-21

LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is celebrating its silver jubilee year. The institute has been organizing a series of international academic conferences and meetings through the year to commemorate its anniversary through 2011-2012. A scientific meeting ‘ Evidence 2012’ was recently held in at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. The theme for this year’s event was evidence-based ophthalmology. A commemorative book named ‘So that all may see’, was also released.

On the eve of the silver jubilee celebrations, the LVPEI Alumni Association – a group of about 300 ophthalmologists trained from LVPEI – honoured a few of their former teachers with mementos. Those honoured include Dr GN Rao, Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Dr Taraprasad Das, Dr D Balasubramanian, Dr AK Mandal, Dr Savitri Sharma, Dr Aashish Bansal, Dr Satish Gupta, Dr CVM Reddy, Dr Sri Ramulu and Dr Prasad.

LVPEI has made a difference to over 15 million (1.5 crore) people in India since its inception 25 years back in 1987. The institute is spread across 108 locations in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, with its centre of excellence in Hyderabad.Dr Gullapalli Nageshwar Rao, Founder-Chair, LVPEI with the support of his wife Pratibha Rao, family, joined by a few friends, started the operations and established a world-class eye institute in Hyderabad that introduced quality eye care to Andhra Pradesh and India. The institute was named LV Prasad Eye Institute in honour of the major donor who donated the premises on which the institute’s centre of excellence stands today.

LVPEI’s mission to eliminate causes of avoidable blindness saw it expand organically to include community outreach activities in a bid to reach quality eye care to the doorsteps of those who could not travel to the cities to access it. The institute’s education arm was introduced to address the dire need to educate and train adequate numbers of eye health personnel for India’s burgeoning population and for other developing countries.

LVPEI’s research and eye bank too were initiated to address similar needs, while its rehabilitation and sight enhancement services address the needs of those in whom vision loss cannot be restored. The institute offers qualitative comprehensive ophthalmic care to both paying and non-paying patients. Its rehabilitation centres have successfully rehabilitated over one lakh visually impaired clients till date, while its eye bank has harvested over 36,000 donor corneas and transplanted over 19,000 of them to needy patients. The institute also has the distinction of performing over 800 limbal stem cell transplantations.

The LVPEI network today includes a centre of excellence in Hyderabad, three tertiary centres in Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada, 10 secondary and 89 primary care centres that cover the remotest rural areas in Andhra Pradesh, as well as four city centres. It is also a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness.

Dr Gullapalli N Rao said, “We learnt early on that healing requires more than just excellent clinical care. It requires the diligent application of ‘Excellence, Equity and Efficiency’ in all our endeavours. This has been the mantra for our success that has seen us rise to be among the best eye institutes in the world. Looking forward, I hope that we will sustain the momentum to become the top eye institute in the world.”

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